Copy contents of Word doc & Paste in Excel

Can this be done using COM or any other PHP function?

If yes how or where is the best resource?

I have been searching for 2 days - the closest I have gotten is to open and Print a Word doc.

Are you trying to do this on the Server Side or the Client Side ? I would suggest using the ActiveX interfaces to both Excel and Word to copy and paste between them in either case. Check out http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/both/excel/ for some examples of how to get the basics working, then you'll have to add the VBA for the copy and paste to it.